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and also tell about ronald reagan's reliance on nancy. and i know steve, you can contribute to this. and i'm sure you can, too, richard. >> the one thing they had in common and one of the very few things was their very close relationship with their wives. by the way, their wives did not get along. >> we all remember that. >> but they didn't get in the way of their husbands bonding in a way. but, you know, gorbachev really had no close circle of friends in soviet union. his only close friend, his only real confidante was his wife. and we were told time and time again once we got to know our counterparts better, that he could not make decisions without her. we were surprised, for example, when she came to the conference in ice land. gorbachev had invited reagan to london or ice laland. and he said for a purely working meeting. and i'm the culprit. i in the white house said, well, you know, we should then tell them that the first lady is not coming because if wives are there, there will be a requirement for social things and so on. and if th
and also tell about ronald reagan's reliance on nancy. and i know steve, you can contribute to this. and i'm sure you can, too, richard. >> the one thing they had in common and one of the very few things was their very close relationship with their wives. by the way, their wives did not get along. >> we all remember that. >> but they didn't get in the way of their husbands bonding in a way. but, you know, gorbachev really had no close circle of friends in soviet union. his...
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ronald reagan had a deep instinct. this is the 26 anniversary of the failure of the challenger and the death of chris mcauliffe and the other astronauts. if you go back and look in our film, we have a section of ronald reagan talking to the nation. he does not talk about the fee or failure, he does not talk about turning back. he talks about heroism courage, the spirit of pioneering. the desire to move ahead. he reminds us that it was 390 years earlier on that day that the great english explorer had died at sea. he brought a connection between the age of exploration and the new age of exploration. seven nights ago on the space coast, i outlined a bold and visionary dramatic opportunity for americans. i did it for two very different reasons. one because i will not turn, we will not turn to our grand children and say we were the generation who let the chinese dominate space. we're the generation that accepted the decay of the united states because it was too hard to break out. this is a big country filled with big people
ronald reagan had a deep instinct. this is the 26 anniversary of the failure of the challenger and the death of chris mcauliffe and the other astronauts. if you go back and look in our film, we have a section of ronald reagan talking to the nation. he does not talk about the fee or failure, he does not talk about turning back. he talks about heroism courage, the spirit of pioneering. the desire to move ahead. he reminds us that it was 390 years earlier on that day that the great english...
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you have ronald reagan, the cold warrior. you have gorbachev that grew up in communism and obviously worked his way through that system. two men who you couldn't imagine were going to come together and begin to trust each other. did reagan -- did they change each other? did they come to their decisions to negotiate independently because of what was going on in their countries? what do you think was happening that brought this incredible thing to change the world together? >> it's certainly true that you can't imagine two more different leaders coming together to do such historic things as they did 20, 25 years ago. i think having studied history, that great leaders are political figures who transend their former selves when confronted with some historic opportunity. i think that was the case of reagan and gorbachev. when gorbachev came to power in march 1985, he already had these ideas that would lead to an attempt to end the cold war. i don't think it was ended, but you haven't asked me yet. >> go ahead. take it where you wa
you have ronald reagan, the cold warrior. you have gorbachev that grew up in communism and obviously worked his way through that system. two men who you couldn't imagine were going to come together and begin to trust each other. did reagan -- did they change each other? did they come to their decisions to negotiate independently because of what was going on in their countries? what do you think was happening that brought this incredible thing to change the world together? >> it's...
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we welfare queen being created by ronald reagan. newt gingrich is seeing all this and decided he would create a food stamp camp. that is what he did. it resonated. but the fact of the matter is that nobody wants to be on food stamps. everybody wants a job. people come back from iraq, afghanistan. there are no jobs to be had and they have children to feed. they will look to see those children. many of them turn to food stamps not because they want to but because they have to. the fact remains that president obama would never have expanded the food stamp program if only george w. bush had expanded the work force instead. instead, he cut back on jobs, to 1 million jobs in the three months running up to president obama's inauguration. it was up to the president to either leave those people on streets without food, expand the food stamp programs they can stabilize and feed their families. i do not think that is a bad thing. that is what our christian faith teaches us to do. take care of those who are less fortunate. >> from the washingto
we welfare queen being created by ronald reagan. newt gingrich is seeing all this and decided he would create a food stamp camp. that is what he did. it resonated. but the fact of the matter is that nobody wants to be on food stamps. everybody wants a job. people come back from iraq, afghanistan. there are no jobs to be had and they have children to feed. they will look to see those children. many of them turn to food stamps not because they want to but because they have to. the fact remains...
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the admission was made long after ronald reagan. he said they created that out whole cloth and it work. we had the welfare queen created by ronald reagan. newt gingrich decided he would create a food stamp king. that is what he did. and its resinated. the fact of the matter is, nobody wants to be on food stamps. everybody wants a job. when people come back from iraq, afghanistan and there are no jobs to be had and they have children to feed, they are going to look to feed those children. many of them turn to food stamps, not because they want to, but because they have to. the fact remains that president obama would never have had to expand the food stamp program if george w. bush would have expanded the work force. instead, he cut back on jobs to the tune of 2.1 million jobs in the three months running up to president obama's inauguration. it is up to the president to either leave those. -- people on the street without food or to expand the food stamp program to feed their families. that is what our christian faith teaches us to do.
the admission was made long after ronald reagan. he said they created that out whole cloth and it work. we had the welfare queen created by ronald reagan. newt gingrich decided he would create a food stamp king. that is what he did. and its resinated. the fact of the matter is, nobody wants to be on food stamps. everybody wants a job. when people come back from iraq, afghanistan and there are no jobs to be had and they have children to feed, they are going to look to feed those children. many...
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ronald reagan, you have in your are kentucky -- are give the great video. my feet are in concrete he said and being reagan, he could get away with going to the press conference one morning and saying, the sound you're hearing, is concrete breaking. because as governor, he concluded in order meet the state's requirement he no choice. but it never cost much. he was totally unfront and honest. he went to the people of california and said look here is where we are. it's a bigger mess than we thought. i can't fix it any other way. ic we have to do this. he did that after create agency -- nobody thought ronald reagan was raising taxes to create a bigger government. they thought if he needed it, it must be serious. what we have today is no innovation. no reform, no new thinking, no creativity, no hearings on waste. no hearings of better ways of doings things. you live until the age of the ipad and the iphone, and of google and a facebook and twitter, and you're faced with a federal government which currently runs at the pace of manual typewriter. [laughter] you ha
ronald reagan, you have in your are kentucky -- are give the great video. my feet are in concrete he said and being reagan, he could get away with going to the press conference one morning and saying, the sound you're hearing, is concrete breaking. because as governor, he concluded in order meet the state's requirement he no choice. but it never cost much. he was totally unfront and honest. he went to the people of california and said look here is where we are. it's a bigger mess than we...
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reagan became president you could do with lower and family. our country slides into third world status which is what's happening to the united states right now and what we need to do to some to fix frankly and probably the best way to do it is to have card check is to bring back the right of workers to have a democracy in the workplace also known as a you. progressivism enjoy reading the huffington post and conservatives may enjoy reading the drudge report the department of homeland security apparently enjoys reading with websites as well as social networking sites like twitter facebook so why is d h s monitoring popular news and social networking websites well the agency claims it's just trying to keep tabs on major developing events and has been since two thousand and ten just monitoring web traffic around things like the haiti earthquake or the winter olympics to keep the d.h.s.s. command center in a position where they could better respond to things like. but is that what's really going on not according to the electronic privacy informatio
reagan became president you could do with lower and family. our country slides into third world status which is what's happening to the united states right now and what we need to do to some to fix frankly and probably the best way to do it is to have card check is to bring back the right of workers to have a democracy in the workplace also known as a you. progressivism enjoy reading the huffington post and conservatives may enjoy reading the drudge report the department of homeland security...
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he didn't have the votes then, ronald reagan, in his second term. if he didn't have them then, you won't need them now. you don't need a department of education, you need some federal responsibility in education but it could be minimal. when i was secretary, we did a poll, a survey, of all our grant recipients and we them to evaluate the program, the program that got the best grades, the bloc grant to the states. we take the money, we take our cut out, and send it back to them. that's the program they felt was the best. people said why did you take it in the first place, why don't you leave it there. host: from virginia, good morning. caller: good morning. i'm just sitting here amazed and outraged by the assertions that the former secretary is making. blaming the obama administration for the mass in the middle east because of obama's policy. as i recall, one year ago condoleezza rice and members of the bush administration were tripping over one another to claim that they were the ones responsible for the arab uprising, they were the ones who planted
he didn't have the votes then, ronald reagan, in his second term. if he didn't have them then, you won't need them now. you don't need a department of education, you need some federal responsibility in education but it could be minimal. when i was secretary, we did a poll, a survey, of all our grant recipients and we them to evaluate the program, the program that got the best grades, the bloc grant to the states. we take the money, we take our cut out, and send it back to them. that's the...
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ronald reagan, you have in your archives this great video. reagan campaigned at one point and said my feet are in concrete. and being reagan, he could get away with going to the press conference one morning and saying the sound you're hearing is concrete breaking. [laughter] because as governor he concluded in order to meet the state's requirements he had no choice. but it never cost him very much because he was totally up front and totally honest, and he went to the people of california and said, look, here's where we are. it's a bigger mess than i thought it was, i can't fix it any other way, i think we have to do this. but he did that after creating a commission which fundamentally cut costs and dramatically cut spending. i mean, nobody thought ronald reagan was raising taxes to create a bigger government. they figured out if he needed it, then it must be really serious. what we have today is no innovation, no reform, no new thinking, no creativity, no hearings on waste, no hearings on better ways of doing things. you live in the age of th
ronald reagan, you have in your archives this great video. reagan campaigned at one point and said my feet are in concrete. and being reagan, he could get away with going to the press conference one morning and saying the sound you're hearing is concrete breaking. [laughter] because as governor he concluded in order to meet the state's requirements he had no choice. but it never cost him very much because he was totally up front and totally honest, and he went to the people of california and...
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the ghost of ronald reagan haunting president obama. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. mr. obama opened up a new front in his battle against mitt romney today by going back to the tax the rich mantra. the president trying to force romney in to defending wealthy americans by opposing tax increases on them. so, say hello once again to our little friend, class warfare. but here is an interesting side bar. the ghost of ronald reagan may be haunting president obama. 32 years ago america was also in bad economic times. the incumbent president jimmy carter had expanded the federal government and lost control of the private sector. unemployment and inflation were very big problems. the challenger, ronald reagan, took full advantage of that portraying carter as incompetent and, of course, reagan won the election. on january 20th, 1981, ronald reagan said this in his inaugural address. >> those who do work are denied a fair return for their labor by a tax system which penalizes successful achievement and keeps us from mai
the ghost of ronald reagan haunting president obama. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. mr. obama opened up a new front in his battle against mitt romney today by going back to the tax the rich mantra. the president trying to force romney in to defending wealthy americans by opposing tax increases on them. so, say hello once again to our little friend, class warfare. but here is an interesting side bar. the ghost of ronald reagan may be haunting president obama. 32 years...
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reagan the name national airport in washington after ronald reagan he was turned into this kind of iconic figure this hero and it was very important for the republicans that in effect they wanted their version of john kennedy and they use ronald reagan to sort of build their own fire brand if you will so i think that was that was a factor that people came away and conventional wisdom was that ronald reagan was a nice guy trying to do the right thing. the evidence may not match that but that's the that's the sort of the hangover of this period that's what people think that's the conventional wisdom so i think given that there's been a desire to sort of show his side some of the unpleasant history about ronald reagan and just look at the good side. very interesting robert thank you so much for coming on the show that was of robert parry investigative journalist for consorting animals dot com. also ahead of our tale what strippers tampa and mitt romney happened comment i'll tell you in a moment. the talk of american power continues. things are so bad. might actually be time revolution. and i
reagan the name national airport in washington after ronald reagan he was turned into this kind of iconic figure this hero and it was very important for the republicans that in effect they wanted their version of john kennedy and they use ronald reagan to sort of build their own fire brand if you will so i think that was that was a factor that people came away and conventional wisdom was that ronald reagan was a nice guy trying to do the right thing. the evidence may not match that but that's...
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and ronald reagan says, no, that was in the past. another question, who won the cold war? and the american president says, both sides won the cold war. so i'm reminded of that episode. a very brief question. >> what is your question, please? >> my question, yes. margaret thatcher who was a political ally of ronald reagan, she very famously said of mikhail gorbachev, we can do business with him. did your european allies play any role in softening the impact of the cold war? >> the question is, margaret thatcher came out and said, we can do business with gorbachev. was there any other ally that that kind of influence on ronald reagan? >> in different ways, yes. that was very important because reagan's intelligence organizations was telling him that gorbachev was simply a more efficient leader with the same goals of the past. but he did take what thatcher said. the french president also played a role. particularly in convincing dp h gorbachev. he and thatcher both. that reagan was a person he could do business with and not simply an ideologue. i would say in general, we had e
and ronald reagan says, no, that was in the past. another question, who won the cold war? and the american president says, both sides won the cold war. so i'm reminded of that episode. a very brief question. >> what is your question, please? >> my question, yes. margaret thatcher who was a political ally of ronald reagan, she very famously said of mikhail gorbachev, we can do business with him. did your european allies play any role in softening the impact of the cold war? >>...
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and they would say i would do what ronald reagan did. and then there was the 2008 campaign on the democratic side, there was a big argument about ronald reagan, which as nancy was hinting, obama basically said i will be more reaganesque than clinton ever was. an astonishing thing to happen. these men will come out of the office with huge stars, even when they are very successful. the thing that binds men from different parties and different generations in the club after it's all over, that make some friends when you least suspect it, is that they all come out of office with burdens and regrets. things they wish they could do over. even the ones that turn out well, but they have misgivings. this is a famous picture from 1961. mrs. john f. kennedy's first trip to camp david come the place named after ike's grandson. it was not a cordial call. it was because -- how many days was that? >> unwanted. >> literally, eisenhower is taking kennedy to the woodshed and kennedy is new to office. he had re-organize the white house around his own decisi
and they would say i would do what ronald reagan did. and then there was the 2008 campaign on the democratic side, there was a big argument about ronald reagan, which as nancy was hinting, obama basically said i will be more reaganesque than clinton ever was. an astonishing thing to happen. these men will come out of the office with huge stars, even when they are very successful. the thing that binds men from different parties and different generations in the club after it's all over, that make...
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ronald reagan used to say freedom is one generation from being lost. and the fact that people serve the country and do so under difficult times we owe you a debt of gratitude and the young people take the example from what you have done with your own lives. one thing i want to do and i will do it quickly is to tell you who i really am. how many of you watch fox news? i'm the brunette at fox news. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> and in that regard, i have to earn my keep every day as the brunette at fox news. and so i want to talk to you about the national security issues we face today, the ones we are likely to face four years from now if we don't have a change of course and then really the future beyond that. where are we today? well, the arab spring. a year ago someone stood up here and said this is great. the entire middle east is going up in flames and they are throwing over their dictators and will have new democratic governments. it hasn't happened that way. the countries in the middle east who have overthrown their dictators have in the last severa
ronald reagan used to say freedom is one generation from being lost. and the fact that people serve the country and do so under difficult times we owe you a debt of gratitude and the young people take the example from what you have done with your own lives. one thing i want to do and i will do it quickly is to tell you who i really am. how many of you watch fox news? i'm the brunette at fox news. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> and in that regard, i have to earn my keep every day as the...
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i hoped with ronald reagan the line or joke about hard work. but reagan really did work hard. he worked hard on his speeches. he rehearsed them over and over, even the ones he delivered hundreds of times before and he rewrote many of them entirely from scratch. he did this, because he recognized, as james baker told me, that giving speeches is one of the president's most important duties. reagan's gift was his ability to speak candidly about the realities of the age while still presenting an optimistic vision for the future. in his best speech, most. he ramably in my mind at the brandenburg gate, found a way to defend american interests and inspire people to believe that the world really could become a better place. and the challenge for our current president and i think all those that succeed him will be to do the same. i've now spoken for longer than ronald reagan did in berlin so i hope you enjoys book and i'm ready to take any questions that you might have. thank you. yes, in the back. >> i have a question. thank you very much for your presentation. during this time period
i hoped with ronald reagan the line or joke about hard work. but reagan really did work hard. he worked hard on his speeches. he rehearsed them over and over, even the ones he delivered hundreds of times before and he rewrote many of them entirely from scratch. he did this, because he recognized, as james baker told me, that giving speeches is one of the president's most important duties. reagan's gift was his ability to speak candidly about the realities of the age while still presenting an...
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reagan or 1964 and barry goldwater and nelson rockefeller, those have been hard races to win. when the fight goes on for a long time and deep divisions represented in the party it ends up often, if history tells us anything, kind of -- you ended up with a disunited party. a debilitated nominee. i think it's going to be a challenge for whoever gets the republican nominee to overcome that in the face of the difficulty that always obtains when you have an incumbent in office. very difficult to beat an incumbent. especially one if the economy is improving. in a measurable way, even if it's a small way. it's going to be hard. not impossible, but it's going to be hard and everything that barack obama was in a very bad place politically six months ago. when his approval rating was down to 39% and the economy still looked -- he's improved tick by tick in terms of the -- his approval rating, the right track/wrong track numbers are moving a little bit in his direction and the economy still seems to be getting a little bit better. now a lot of down side surprises that could happen. wheth
reagan or 1964 and barry goldwater and nelson rockefeller, those have been hard races to win. when the fight goes on for a long time and deep divisions represented in the party it ends up often, if history tells us anything, kind of -- you ended up with a disunited party. a debilitated nominee. i think it's going to be a challenge for whoever gets the republican nominee to overcome that in the face of the difficulty that always obtains when you have an incumbent in office. very difficult to...
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that ronald reagan spending under ronald reagan was actually very high comparable to what we're seeing right now twenty two twenty three percent of g.d.p. year after year after year so if what you're saying is true that spending a lot of money as a percentage of g.d.p. or as an absolute amount is what's going to ensure prosperity for the future then you should i guess i'm going to say it is investing in america will ensure prosperity ronald reagan spent a lot of money stupidly he had almost a trillion dollars off to his buddies in the defense industry for the star wars program that never materialized and a lot of that money just vanished into space i mean not literally but well actually literally i suppose but you know if you're concerned about your three year old daughter i would think that you would be wanting america to be making investments in their feet in our future like we did fifty sixty years ago not just spending money for the sake of running up the debt so that the you know the jude wineskins to santa clause three could play out like reagan was where if you run up the debt b
that ronald reagan spending under ronald reagan was actually very high comparable to what we're seeing right now twenty two twenty three percent of g.d.p. year after year after year so if what you're saying is true that spending a lot of money as a percentage of g.d.p. or as an absolute amount is what's going to ensure prosperity for the future then you should i guess i'm going to say it is investing in america will ensure prosperity ronald reagan spent a lot of money stupidly he had almost a...
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reagan's political career and ronald reagan as governor of california and ronald reagan as president of the tranny. he's also done biographies of jimmy carter and winston churchill. he has a distinct background reduce active in a number of organizations including the pacific research institute. he's had a great deal of experiences, a bradley fellow, here at the heritage foundation and also has done a number of things, including being a member of the california citizens compensation commission, and in various other academic pursuits. but today for our purposes he has done a particularly important thing, and that is look at the modern presidency, that is from woodrow wilson through the presidency of barack obama. one of the things he has done is looked at it from a different angle than most be writing about president. he has looked at from the standpoint of how have presidents done in regard, particularly in the modern era, in regard to what the constitution and the founders had in mind for the presidency of the united states. this distinguishes him from a number of the people who have
reagan's political career and ronald reagan as governor of california and ronald reagan as president of the tranny. he's also done biographies of jimmy carter and winston churchill. he has a distinct background reduce active in a number of organizations including the pacific research institute. he's had a great deal of experiences, a bradley fellow, here at the heritage foundation and also has done a number of things, including being a member of the california citizens compensation commission,...
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ronald reagan took the helm back in 1980 he had fought some battles. he'd been fighting battles for a couple of decades to revive conservatism in this country. he fought and insurgent campaign against no less a sitting incumbent republican. now, we don't have a sitting republican incumbent running for office this time. but we have someone that is certainly the -- the choice of the establishment republican. someone whose turn it was. we see that so often in republican politics for president. it's almost -- almost inevitable whose ever the next in line, that's who the republicans tend to put forward. and ronald reagan said, no, we don't need the next in line. we need something very different. what's going on and was going on in 1976 and, of course, even worse in 1980 was something that was corrosive of the american spirit. we were in a time in the '60s and the '70s that we stopped believing in what made america great. we started believing that government and control of aspects of our lives was what make americans stronger. back in the late 1970s, the wor
ronald reagan took the helm back in 1980 he had fought some battles. he'd been fighting battles for a couple of decades to revive conservatism in this country. he fought and insurgent campaign against no less a sitting incumbent republican. now, we don't have a sitting republican incumbent running for office this time. but we have someone that is certainly the -- the choice of the establishment republican. someone whose turn it was. we see that so often in republican politics for president....
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party has just nominated a guy who lives 15 miles to the left of ronald reagan. every republican nominee since reagan has been more liberal than him. >> we had a special election this week in arizona, in a district that republicans have carried at the presidential level consistently since its creation. the democrats running as a democrat, and national democrat, a vanquished the republican, an iraq veteran, who came out for the ryan budget, the privatization of medicare, and that was a loser, folks. take that as an example of where we're going in the debate in. > -- in 2012. >> colby, this week the federal reserve reported that our network is shrinking -- net worth is shrinking. a lot of this is housing. median home equity dropped 42.3%. >> this is pre-barack obama. that is an argument we are going to hear over and over again, who is responsible for it. i would like to not shift gears but stay on the subject of 2012, especially where congress is concerned. that is where we are going to see real action over the house of representatives. the chance that democrats ca
party has just nominated a guy who lives 15 miles to the left of ronald reagan. every republican nominee since reagan has been more liberal than him. >> we had a special election this week in arizona, in a district that republicans have carried at the presidential level consistently since its creation. the democrats running as a democrat, and national democrat, a vanquished the republican, an iraq veteran, who came out for the ryan budget, the privatization of medicare, and that was a...
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ronald reagan washington national airport at 30 trees. high pressure over us will give us plenty of sunshine today. here's your "day planner." we'll quickly warm up with a southwesterly wind. ought to be near 50 by noon time. sun i afternoon. low and mid-50s and then this evening partly cloudy, temperatures by midnight down to near 40 degrees then some big changes on the way important the rest of the week and weekend. we'll talk about that coming up in about ten minutes. here's a look at traffic. >> if you're taking the beltway on the inner loop of the beltway, have a lot of delays happening. accident as you make your way on the inner loop approaching route 1. out of the roadway but you're going to see some crowding as you make your way from i-95 and head towards route 1. traveling on 395, slow at the beltway. live look at duke. these delaycontinue northbound as you head to seminary road. once you get to seminary looks pretty good as you cross over the 14th street bridge. a minor delay on the brunswick east train on the marc. >>> 6:42. pr
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can you imagine ronald reagan saying anything as deeply insidious as that. it's basically gossip and it feels that way, there is he' a reason that rick santorum for all of us oncoming victories isn't getting anywhere, he is a snarling-- and people feel it. >> that's an attack on santorum, but what about the point about newt gingrich? >> and grandiose. >> he said i've got the big ideas. what about you wake up on november 1st and oh, man, gingrich blew the race. >> and one of the most disciplined politicians of my lifetime, ronald reagan. newt gingrich is not as disciplined. >> cuts into the electability-- sorry, dorothy. >> what difference does it make, these are the the facts about gingrich, what can you do about these psychological stories or facts? we don't know what we can do. all we know, this is the candidate and he seems very promising. >> and, but the erratic issue, the fact that he's all over the map saying things and wondering what he's saying next, it's not just a question of independent voters taking a measure of the man. it undercuts i'm the smar
can you imagine ronald reagan saying anything as deeply insidious as that. it's basically gossip and it feels that way, there is he' a reason that rick santorum for all of us oncoming victories isn't getting anywhere, he is a snarling-- and people feel it. >> that's an attack on santorum, but what about the point about newt gingrich? >> and grandiose. >> he said i've got the big ideas. what about you wake up on november 1st and oh, man, gingrich blew the race. >> and one...
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in some ways ronald reagan was a bigger part of that story than we would have guessed because we first meet him in 1947. huang before his presidency. as we dug deeper and deeper into reagan's relationship with the club he had seen fdr and had gone to a truman 100 in kansas city when he was still a democrat and would then be taken under the wing of ike when he was beginning his political career as a republican. i was struck by how is -- when we were coming up the driveway he saw over and over again all the presidents which is a reminder every person who served the commander in chief sees himself as part of a bigger club. let me enhance the picture. this was on the cover of time two or three weeks ago. it had never been published before and we were thrilled to put it on the cover. it really began a long time before george w. bush, barack obama and bill clinton with their to pick up the torch. it begins -- what year would you say? >> it begins when the president is in need of some serious help. that is what it would take to bring together such an unlikely partnership as harry truman and h
in some ways ronald reagan was a bigger part of that story than we would have guessed because we first meet him in 1947. huang before his presidency. as we dug deeper and deeper into reagan's relationship with the club he had seen fdr and had gone to a truman 100 in kansas city when he was still a democrat and would then be taken under the wing of ike when he was beginning his political career as a republican. i was struck by how is -- when we were coming up the driveway he saw over and over...
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as the choice we made in 1980. >> over three decades have passed since ronald reagan was first elected to the white house. yet the impact of his leadership, is still evident today. while in office, president reagan had three major goals: to restore the economy, to revive the american spirit, and to defeat totalitarianism, spreading democracy throughout the world. >> by remaining true to his convictions through his belief in the american people and with tremendous optimism, president reagan achieved these goals. >> it's striking how president carter and president obama both took our nation down a path that in four years weakened america's confidence in itself and our hope for a better future. >> both weakened the respect for america abroad. both increased government programs filled with waste and inefficientcy that failed to produce results. both made promises they couldn't keep, and as a consequence of ineffective policies, both were unable to revive our economy and create jobs. >> for example, both crippled american energy production when there were better ways to develop and use our
as the choice we made in 1980. >> over three decades have passed since ronald reagan was first elected to the white house. yet the impact of his leadership, is still evident today. while in office, president reagan had three major goals: to restore the economy, to revive the american spirit, and to defeat totalitarianism, spreading democracy throughout the world. >> by remaining true to his convictions through his belief in the american people and with tremendous optimism, president...
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didn't happen and the reason why mitt romney really was no ronald reagan is because ron reagan connected with voters he was an actor he had that ability to even you know even though he. might not understand or or voters might not be able to connect with his his life style ronald reagan's life style i mean obviously he was he was very well off but at the same time he was able to to connect with them on a very personal level that twinkle in his eye they feel that they like to able to connect with democrat was democratic crossover democratic independent voters who he appealed to mitt romney didn't have that appeal so it wasn't the same kind of you know steve i mean i'm kind of neutral here on this one ok but i'll give. you're a man what credit for he's a great campaigner i don't know if he's a great president i don't know if he's a great politician but he's a great campaigner he was just more likable than romney i think you'd agree with that but the third point at least. actually i think he's personally much much more likable than mitt romney but the final exit polls actually showed that ro
didn't happen and the reason why mitt romney really was no ronald reagan is because ron reagan connected with voters he was an actor he had that ability to even you know even though he. might not understand or or voters might not be able to connect with his his life style ronald reagan's life style i mean obviously he was he was very well off but at the same time he was able to to connect with them on a very personal level that twinkle in his eye they feel that they like to able to connect with...
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>> the same way ronald reagan did. ronald reagan in december of '79 was 30 points behind jimmy carter. and he made the case that the candidate with ideas, the candidate with conservative values, the candidate who could articulate and defend his position was in the end going to be the best candidate. the country decided he was right. i think if you look at newt.org and you look at all the things we've developed, i can go toe to toe with president obama on big things. there are big differences. you know, romney care and obama care were this far apart. a pretty big debate. i'm for dramatically lower taxes. the president is for much higher taxes. i'm for less regulation. the president's for more regulation. i'm for strength overseas to defend israel and to defend the united states. the president's for weakness overseas. i think you can draw a very strong case that in the end the dynamics of a gingrich/obama fight are much better for republicans than the dynamics of a romney/obama fight. >> and let me ask you, you released
>> the same way ronald reagan did. ronald reagan in december of '79 was 30 points behind jimmy carter. and he made the case that the candidate with ideas, the candidate with conservative values, the candidate who could articulate and defend his position was in the end going to be the best candidate. the country decided he was right. i think if you look at newt.org and you look at all the things we've developed, i can go toe to toe with president obama on big things. there are big...
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i think they want to see a big solution, ronald reagan-style visionary candidate. >> okay. a lot of donors under $250 and one way above $250. rick, give me a scenario that's good for your candidate? how does it work well for him from now until tampa and on to november? what's a good scenario for newt gingrich to come out a winner in this whole process? >> well, the best scenario obviously is that he wins alabama and mississippi. then he gains some momentum from there. as rick santorum -- you can look up his record, but he's not a conservative. i think he gains momentum from there. by the way, the romney campaign has put out all this math where it's impossible for rick santorum or newt gingrich to reach the delegates he's now claiming for himself. while i'll admit it may be improbable, it is also equally improbable, if not impossible, that mitt romney actually gets to the convention with the right number of delegates. if newt gingrich were to drop out and leave the voters with no conservative choice at all, mitt romney would crush rick santorum and he would be our nominee. >
i think they want to see a big solution, ronald reagan-style visionary candidate. >> okay. a lot of donors under $250 and one way above $250. rick, give me a scenario that's good for your candidate? how does it work well for him from now until tampa and on to november? what's a good scenario for newt gingrich to come out a winner in this whole process? >> well, the best scenario obviously is that he wins alabama and mississippi. then he gains some momentum from there. as rick...
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when ronald reagan was reelected in 1984, ronald reagan won this many states on the electoral map. you can stop your counting. he won 49. ronald reagan, 49 states. it was a landslide. look at the electoral vote tally. ronald reagan, 525, walter mondale, 25. president reagan decided what he was going to sail toward, what he would prioritize after that overwhelming endorsement of him as president, what he would work on was war in central america. >> president reagan warned of a new danger, support for the leftist government from nicaragua. the president sees that as still another reason we should renew our support of the rebels. >> a new danger we see in central america is the support being given by gadhafi's libya and most recently iran. >> the iranian connection was brought up as he put pressure on congress to resume funding for the rebels in nicaragua. >> countering this by supporting freedom fighters is essentially acting in self-defense. >> self-defense, which would be true if he were the president of nicaragua. but as president of the united states of america, president reagan
when ronald reagan was reelected in 1984, ronald reagan won this many states on the electoral map. you can stop your counting. he won 49. ronald reagan, 49 states. it was a landslide. look at the electoral vote tally. ronald reagan, 525, walter mondale, 25. president reagan decided what he was going to sail toward, what he would prioritize after that overwhelming endorsement of him as president, what he would work on was war in central america. >> president reagan warned of a new danger,...
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and the big story of that week was ronald reagan had only been in office two kwleeryears. was making a stealth run against richard nixon. he didn't know how to pull it off. he a lot of money behind him. nixon had the whole place so buttoned up. the most understanding moment at the convention was the announcement that his vice presidential candidate would be spiro agnew. i remember the bureau chief in baltimore, washington, looking like he had been electric shocked, that this guy was going to be the vice president. one heartbeat away from the presidency. they went out of there and put together the new republican coalition. which is that they took the south away from the democrats. and they -- richard nixon was very clever about capitalizing on what he called the silent majority, which really did exist, these were working-class democrats, who wore hard hats and carried lunch buckets, who fed up with what they were seeing on the democratic side. when i went home from chicago to my home in south dakota on my way back to california, my dad was a life-long working-class democrat
and the big story of that week was ronald reagan had only been in office two kwleeryears. was making a stealth run against richard nixon. he didn't know how to pull it off. he a lot of money behind him. nixon had the whole place so buttoned up. the most understanding moment at the convention was the announcement that his vice presidential candidate would be spiro agnew. i remember the bureau chief in baltimore, washington, looking like he had been electric shocked, that this guy was going to be...
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i need go back to ronald reagan's strategy, it works. host: our first caller decried the inability of the senate to pass legislation about the outsourcing of jobs. i would guess you would disagree with her. caller: i mean the outsourcing of jobs is basically because they're jumping ship. they can't operate in this country under all these regulations and government taxes and all the control and now we want toed a even more to the pot and expect everything to produce and to run smoothly and raise taxes on top of that? by design, america, what is left of her, is being destroyed. host: next up is philadelphia. joe is an independent there. go ahead, please, joe. caller: yes, good morning. thanks for taking my call. i wear a reflector -- reflective of the previous caller. most world war ii, we were the ace -- post-world war two, we were the greatest nation on earth. they told us the russians and the chinese were going to annihilate us as a society. we had all these jobs after world war ii and all these politicians got hold of making our lives
i need go back to ronald reagan's strategy, it works. host: our first caller decried the inability of the senate to pass legislation about the outsourcing of jobs. i would guess you would disagree with her. caller: i mean the outsourcing of jobs is basically because they're jumping ship. they can't operate in this country under all these regulations and government taxes and all the control and now we want toed a even more to the pot and expect everything to produce and to run smoothly and raise...
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this is what ronald reagan wanted. lower, flatter tax rates will give americans more confidence in the future. it will mean if you work overtime or get a raise or promotion or if you have a small business, and are able to turn a profit, more of that extra income will end up where it belongs, in your wallet, not in uncle sam's pocket. when he was done reforming taxes, ronald reagan with, of course, the help of congress, they reduced the number of brackets from 14 to 2. his top tax bracket is 28. this president would like people on the upper end to be closer to 40. >> people actually worked together back then. fox news alert right now as you might have known from watching "fox & friends" first, north korea defying to launch a rocket. >> the former asian affairs director for the national security council and author of "the impossible state." good morning to you, victor. >> good morning. >> why do they need their own weather satellite? can't they just look at the weather channel? >> you know, i think it's a good question.
this is what ronald reagan wanted. lower, flatter tax rates will give americans more confidence in the future. it will mean if you work overtime or get a raise or promotion or if you have a small business, and are able to turn a profit, more of that extra income will end up where it belongs, in your wallet, not in uncle sam's pocket. when he was done reforming taxes, ronald reagan with, of course, the help of congress, they reduced the number of brackets from 14 to 2. his top tax bracket is 28....
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he pays a courtesy call on ronald reagan. they have brief conversations about things every president or would would-be president agree on like line-item veto and the need for a tighter budget and at one point clinton asks the question, any other advice from a? president reagan says the first thing you have got to do is you have to get to camp david. you have to get out of that building. it's good for the soul to get out into the mountains. it was advised that clinton really didn't take until he realized a year or two into his presidency that he needed to get out of the house. the other thing president reagan had been watching president clinton during the campaign and found a little wimpy was john was too kind to say, but it was not a sharp crisp salute. president reagan having been in the military he also played many roles of military and clinton as i understand asked reagan to show him how to do it. the two men actually had a brief saluting clinic they are in the century plaza office of the president and it reminded me that
he pays a courtesy call on ronald reagan. they have brief conversations about things every president or would would-be president agree on like line-item veto and the need for a tighter budget and at one point clinton asks the question, any other advice from a? president reagan says the first thing you have got to do is you have to get to camp david. you have to get out of that building. it's good for the soul to get out into the mountains. it was advised that clinton really didn't take until he...
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when south carolina voted for ronald reagan, he was not ronald reagan. not the reagan we remember. he became the ronald reagan we remember. what you saw, the reagan, you believed he could be the reagan we would remember some day. the bold. do what is right for america. thank you and god bless. [applause] >> senator rick santorum. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, we have used our allotted time and then sometime thank you for your patience. please, another nice hand for our two questioners tonight. thank you, gentlemen. [applause] and thank you all very much as well for taking time to come out tonight, expressing your patriotism, and showing your interest in america. we appreciate you being here. be safe going home. god bless you and good night. >> the south carolina primary is saturday january 21. since 1980, the winner has gone on to be the presidential nominee. >> i think you have to say that this has been a failed presidency. i cannot think he is trying to make a bad. he just did not know what to do. he is over his head. >> we have a message that can appeal not just in south caro
when south carolina voted for ronald reagan, he was not ronald reagan. not the reagan we remember. he became the ronald reagan we remember. what you saw, the reagan, you believed he could be the reagan we would remember some day. the bold. do what is right for america. thank you and god bless. [applause] >> senator rick santorum. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, we have used our allotted time and then sometime thank you for your patience. please, another nice hand for our two questioners...
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before ronald reagan became ronald reagan, when he was still out there as a maverick governor from california making a tour through the south, he had a few instances of a cultural disconnections, too. ronald reagan had to record communication skills and he overcame that over time. host: our guest is tom baxter joining us from atlanta, a longtime observer of southern politics. we have a link to his blog available on our website, c- span.org. we want as to a fundamental question has been looked at a map of the south. what is the new south? what is the southern strategy? what is the southern vote? guest: obama carried three of the larger southern states, virginia, north carolina, and florida. there was not a solid south in the sense we have spoken about in previous elections. the other thing about that election is that if obama had not won any of those three states, he still would have had the electoral votes to win the election. we come in to this year with this out, again, being the beneficiary of reapportionment. with the electoral votes in texas, it makes the south still necessary for the de
before ronald reagan became ronald reagan, when he was still out there as a maverick governor from california making a tour through the south, he had a few instances of a cultural disconnections, too. ronald reagan had to record communication skills and he overcame that over time. host: our guest is tom baxter joining us from atlanta, a longtime observer of southern politics. we have a link to his blog available on our website, c- span.org. we want as to a fundamental question has been looked...
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comes back to ronald reagan's question, are you better off than you were four years ago? according to the gallup poll, 49% of americans say that in their local areas, their home towns, the economy is in excellent or good condition, but only 25% say that the national, the nation, and the country is in good economic condition. that is really a disconnect for president obama, and he is going to make the case that we are improving, we are not there, but i understand what you are going through, i really do. people laugh at doe clinton, but his ability to identify with the suffering and the answer to the anxiety was a very important point. >> romney should be able to hit it out of the park with these numbers, it seems to me. >> the real problem obama has is one mark said. he should say that things are improving, but when the numbers came out for may, he could not say that anymore. you could say that over the winter. unseasonably high employment. now with the may numbers -- what he is saying instead it, we have got headwinds. it is not meet, it is europe, whenever. -- whatever.
comes back to ronald reagan's question, are you better off than you were four years ago? according to the gallup poll, 49% of americans say that in their local areas, their home towns, the economy is in excellent or good condition, but only 25% say that the national, the nation, and the country is in good economic condition. that is really a disconnect for president obama, and he is going to make the case that we are improving, we are not there, but i understand what you are going through, i...